nation which was visited by another violent earthquake on Saturday last. Two towns on the northern coast of the southern mainland, Toyooka and Kinosaki, have been almost wiped...

wholeheartedly or efficiently co-operate with France. M. Matey, representing the French Government, has recently visited Madrid for the purpose of arriving at some co-operative...

A FFAIRS in Morocco arc naturally causing a great deal of anxiety in Fiance. In Great Britain sympathy runs very strongly with the French who are being put to a colonial test...

Garden, London, W.C.2.—A Subscription to the " Spectator" costs Thirty Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. The Postage on this issue is : Inland,...

the mission of civilization and of the arts of administration. In all its greatest aspects it is the work of Marshal Lyautey, who is the Cromer of French Morocco. He is a man...

*the practice which has grown up among some Ministers of regularly writing for newspapers. The frequent articles by Lord Birkenhead were the immediate pretext of the questions....

but Lord Salisbury and Lord Birkenhead opposed it. Lord Birkenhead said that women who were peeresses in their own right had been granted special privileges only in order to...

so but we need mention only two. One is that any public statement by a Cabinet Minister is properly taken as involving the collective responsibility of the Cabinet— the...

of the Finance Bill. The general character of the debate showed that though opposition to the Budget was of many kinds there was no great heart in it. Although doubts were felt...

industrial situation governed everything and that the Budget had been prepared without any proper regard for industry. He suggested that Income Tax relief ought to have been...

International Federation known as the Amsterdam International. It will be remembered that in February Amsterdam asked Moscow whether the Soviet Unions , would apply for a ffi...

Astor made another attempt to pass his Bill for enabling peeresses in their own right to sit in the House. This time the Bill was lost by only two votes-80 to 78. The Bill while...

which the Muscovite leaders pretend. Most reas- suring evidence of the sanity of British Trade Unionists was given at the meeting of miners' delegates at Blackpool last week....

on March 5th, 1925.- War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Thursday 99 d ; on Thursday week 9911; a year ago 100*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Thursday 871 ; on Thursday week 871...

in the Derby as Manna had on Wednesday. The horse, which belongs to Mr. H. E. Morriss, of Shanghai, was in perfect temper and perfect condition, and Steve Donoghue, who rode...

occurred on Friday, May 22nd. If the public judged Lord Ypres by what happened in the Great War and its sequels it would do a great injustice to his memory. As a, young man John...

the foundation stone of the huge new building into which Lloyd's will expand. Having outgrown its quarters in the Royal" Exchange, Lloyd's will move into a new home on the...

T HE announcement of the abolition of martial law throughout Spain has caused a good deal of speculation as to whether this means that the Directory is on the eve of restoring...

• COAL INTO OIL—THE GREAT " IF " IF we could find a practical way of turning our coal into oil and leaving a good and efficient form of coke for domestic and industrial...

BY NEW MEMBER. W ITH the notable exceptions of the Imperial policy and the Agricultural policy, upon which I hope to say something next week, the main lines of Government...

T HE following is an account of a housing experiment which has been carried out on a small scale, it is true, but which has stood the test of some twenty-five years. Its success...

IV.—I TAKE UP ARMS AGAINST A SEA OF CRITICISM. BY GERTRUDE KINGSTON. A MONG the critics who have joined issue with me on the various points I touched upon in my series of...

Postal Subscribers changing their address, or who while travelling desire their copies of the paper to be sent to a temporary address, are asked to notify the SPECTATOR Office...

Mr. Epstein's panel for the W. H. Hudson memorial in Hyde Park is that it has made people talk loudly and angrily, wisely or wildly, about art. A work of art which gets itself...

1 N a restless world of change and Stadiums, the con- sistent versatility of Olympia remains a solid and comforting fact. Nothing comes amiss to it. Motor- cars, Ideal Homes,...

A WAY in Kent there is a dolmen called in jovial fashion, " Kit's Coty House." To 'be candid,' it caused me a good deal of discomfort ; what was a dolmen doing in Kent, and how...

THE REBUILDING OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND TILE demolition of the Bank of England is going on. It is now too late even to discuss whether additional accom- modation for some of its...

NIGHTMARE DRAMA LONDON audiences still thirst after thrills. They want to be dramatically bullied, disturbed, or oppressed. This season we have endured a series of rather...

THE expectations of no audience could perhaps be higher than at Covent Garden on the lowering of the lights on Monday week. Last year we witnessed a number of superb...

THE "MESSAGE OF THE EAST" IN AMERICA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am convinced that neither the statesmen, nor the , people of England who know what Great Britain has...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—I sat in the House of Commons with Mr. Swift MacNeill for nine years and greatly enjoyed his wit, eloquence and knowledge. I regarded him...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] 51.14 —Your " Oversea Irishman " contributor, whose inte- resting articles you are with your usual fair-mindedness pub- lishing, misses an...

" Oversea Irishman," who seems to think that loyal feelings exist no more in the Irish Free State, had been present at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, on the evening of May 14th...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The muddle in which Mr. Churchill has entangled himself in respect to his incursion into the fantastic realms of Protection, under the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Siat,—Your correspondent, "M.," who wrote so pleasant a retrospect of angling in Ireland moves me to say that he is unduly pessimistic about...

the interesting articles on Ireland, I may nienticn two important causes of the de- pression in the linen trade in Ireland and also in this country which are not referred to :...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Mr. Baldwin's call to men of the Universities to apply themselves to the task of politics and the duties of government is full of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIRS I Was so much interested in an account of the way in which Lord Guilford's agent at Sandwich had lighted his house with electricity,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I think the suggestion of your correspondent "M. C. M." in your issue of May 2nd for a spontaneous and really voluntary National Levy is a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In a footnote to the article " The Future of Canada " in the issue of May 16th, you observe in regard to Independence : " an unequivocal...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue—Buying Imperially and eating Imperially are matters of very great importance to the British public, and they are given peculiar...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There is a great deal of talk just now about jazz and its influence, but nobody seems to have called attention to the fact that since the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with much interest the correspondence in your columns about Trelawny's famous book. I published an unabridged edition in 1891...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,— These verses by the late John Affieck Bridges were given me by the author about the mid-eighties and may interest your readers. Mr....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, " A. P.," writing in your issue of May 16th on the work of Dr. Rudolf Steiner, begins his article by saying that...

of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Dr. Courtenay-Dunn's letter in your last issue certainly deserves consideration. Whether there is at present any such Bureau I do not know ; but our...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I interpose a word or two of caution ? Although there is considerable evidence that iodine can act as a pre- ventive of goitre,...

have read with interest the epitaphs on the Ape-man whose fossilized skull was recently discovered at Taungs. In a recent work Professor Keith gives us the following estimates...

SIR,—I have just read the review in your issue of April 4th of Professor Kiihler's book on The Mentality of Apes. I must confess that I have made no special study of this...

TIME-PIECE CAUGHT, caught is the wild cuckoo That sang among the flowers ; They have prisaned him in a dark prison To count them the hours. Between the dawn and the dim...

Sm,—Here is another dog story which has the merit of being absolutely true. My brother in Ceylon had a small black and tan Dachshund given him about seventeen years ago by my...

MISS MITFORD AND HER LETTERS pNnaticuT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] The Letters of Mary Russell Mitford. Selected with an Introduction by R. Brimley...

The Elizabethan Home, edited by M. St. Clare Byrne, is the most recent of the Haslewood Reprints (Frederick Etchels and Hugh Macdonald, in Kensington Place). It is a selection...

The Editor has offered a prize of £5 for an original Warning in six lines of verse. The result will be announced in next week's issue. IT was Dr. Isaac Watts who issued the...

The Death of Christopher Marlowe. . By J. Leslie Hotson. (Nonesuch Press. Unlimited Edition. Is. 6d. net.) IN the reign of Elizabeth it was not likely that Marlowe's death would...

in the English language, Words and Idioms (Constable). In it he catalogues a great number of idioms in their kind, and traces their derivation ; and he follows the passage of...

Germains has given us a heroic portrait of Lord Kitchener, and has defended him against the polemics, and sometimes the misstatements of his opponents. The most sensational...

Rudolf Steiner's book which Messrs. Allen and Unwin published as The Threefold State is published by their Company under the title The Threefold Commonwealth, and that they can...

The Public Life. By J. A. Spender. In 2 volumes. (Cassell. 39s.) To trace the recent history of English politics, to examine the technique of our public life in the hope of...

Richard Baxter, Puritan and Mystic. By A. H. Ladell, (S.P.C.K. 5s. net.) Chapters from Richard Baxter's Chrlstien Directori." Selected by Jeannette Tawney. (G. Bell and Sons....

Roman Private Life and its Survivals : Our Debt to Greece and Rome. By W. B. McDaniel, Ph.D. (Harrap. 5s.) THE application of business methods to culture is better understood in...

THE learned Registrar of the Prize Court has written the first authentic history of that remarkable institution, as a sequel to the complete reports of prize cases during the...

The Case for the Central Powers. By Count Max Montgelas. Translated by C. Vesey. (Allen and Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.) IN a legal document any inexact phrase that can be avoided is a...

Richards. 10s. 6d.) THE Government of Sierra Leone have authorized their Assistant Colonial Secretary, Mr. Goddard, to put together a volume of information about this very old...

OLD AND NEW FASHIONS The Half Loaf. By Agnes Muir Mackenzie. (Heinemann 6s. net.) THERE is little to say of The Half Loaf. It is astonishing to find so direct a story in this...

net.) WE have sometimes heard the Stock Exchange Official Intelli- gence—the latest volume of which has just reached us— somewhat irreverently described as the " Stockbrokers'...

net.)—The device of keeping the action of his story within the space of a single week, though attractive, has rather hampered Mr. Jeffery K Jeffery in his new novel. Rexon—a...

Mackenzie is decidedly more amusing when he is writing on the pomps and vanities of this wicked world than in his cycle of ecclesiastical novels. Coral, although it is supposed...

-6d. net.)—Three of these eight stories have as their motive murder and suicide. The_ rest of them are chiefly concerned with less startling _sentimental ad- ventures. The plots...

The Farthing Spinster. By Catherine Dodd. (Jarrolds. 7s. 6d. net.)—For the second time within a few weeks a' book is published in which it is necessary to include a family tree...

net.)—A historical novel dealing with Gari- baldi's 1860 campaign. The hero is a monk attached to an ambulance unit, whose reflections and ecclesiastical adventures are not S3...

SOME FAVOURABLE FACTORS By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. THREE important influences of a favourable character have operated upon the Stock Markets during the past week. It remains to be...

NEW CAPITAL RESULTS. SOMEWHAT to the surprise of the Market, underwriters of the Niger Company's 5} per cent. Guaranteed Debenture Stock for £4,000,000 received about 55 per...